DoubleDoor Botnet Chains Exploits to Bypass Firewalls

[Solarquest]

Crooks are building a botnet that for the first time is bundling two exploits together in an attempt to bypass enterprise firewalls and infect devices.

Discovered by researchers from NewSky Security, the botnet has been cleverly named DoubleDoor. According to Ankit Anubhav, NewSky Security Principal Researcher, the DoubleDoor malware attempts to execute exploits that take advantage of two backdoors:

CVE-2015–7755 - backdoor in Juniper Networks’ ScreenOS software. Attackers can use the hardcoded password <<< %s(un=’%s’) = %upassword with any username to access a device via Telnet and SSH.
CVE-2016–10401 - backdoor in ZyXEL PK5001Z routers. Attackers can use admin:CenturyL1nk (or other) and then gain super-user access with the password zyad5001 to gain control over the device.
Anubhav says DoubleDoor attackers are using the first exploit to bypass Juniper Netscreen firewalls and then scan internal networks for ZyXEL routers to exploit with the second exploit.

First time an IoT botnet chains two exploits
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